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Indonesia’s antigraft body, the Corruption Eradication Commission, said Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum is a suspect in a case involving the construction of a multimillion-dollar sports complex in the city of Bogor, West Java.

The Corruption Eradication Commission, a government-created, independent organization that has powers of prosecution, named Luthfi Hasan Ishaaq, president of the Prosperous Justice Party, as a suspect in a corruption case linked to import.

Lord Gold will report to the board’s ethics committee, the company said in a statement. It comes about a month after the company disclosed that it handed the U.K. Serious Fraud Office information about bribery and corruption “involving intermediaries” in overseas markets.

An anti-corruption index in Indonesia showed that 32% of people polled viewed bribing police officers as normal, while 33% of respondents considered it normal to give extra money to civil registry officials.

The SEC alleges a unit of the Germany-based insurance and asset-management company violated the books and records and internal-controls provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act from 2001 to 2008.

Andi Mallarangeng, the youth and sports minister, denied at a press conference having ever received kickbacks. The Indonesian anti-corruption agency, which goes by the acronym KPK, named him as a suspect in a case estimated by a government audit to have caused a loss of around $25.4 million to the state.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has asked the country’s police and anti-corruption agency to fight graft together, even as the two grapple over which should lead an investigation into alleged corruption within the police force.

Jemmah Anshorut Tauhid seeks to establish an Islamic caliphate in Indonesia, the State Department said. The group is responsible for multiple coordinated attacks against innocent civilians, police and military personnel in Indonesia, State said, funding its purchase of weapons by robbing banks and carrying out other illicit activities.

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